Catalog

17.12.15 – 29.1.16

Guy Yanai, Trans Atlantic Orphan

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Elad Kopler, Untitled

Participating Artists

Guy Avital, Matan Ben Tolila, Elad Kopler, Hila Toony Navok, Yaara Oren, Galia Pasternak, Yanai Segal, Guy Yanai, Dana Yoeli

Curated by Nogah Davidson

17.12.2015- 29.01.2016

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Modernism 2016 presents nine artists whose work reflects a renewed interest in Modernist aesthetics. Their return to this stylistic tradition is realized in their intra-disciplinary, form-based studies such as deconstruction, abstraction, color, tempo and composition- consequentially it is manifested mainly in painting. The exhibition may be seen as part of a global shift declaring the rise of new, fresh painting that has revived the medium after years considered dead.

The past year alone has seen a number of extensive exhibitions surrounding contemporary painting. Opening in December 2014 “The Forever Now” was the first exhibition dedicated to contemporary painting to show at MOMA, NY since 1984. Curator Laura Hoptman proposed that contemporary artists’ tendency to mix different styles of painting in a single work, testifies to their refusal to represent present times and attests to the generation’s a-temporality. The current edition of the PS1’s young talent show, “Greater New York”, created a stir due to the large amount of painting presented within the exhibition, usually famous for presenting innovative, challenging material. “Unrealism”, a collaboration between the two titan gallerists Jeffery Deitch and Larry Gagosian in Art Basel Miami, showed over fifty artists whom create contemporary figurative painting (and a small amount of sculpture). Lastly, “Tightrope Walk” curated by Barry Shwabsky at the White Cube Gallery in London, surveys some fifty artists who walk the fine line between abstract and figurative painting. Shwabsky demonstrates how the great Modernist masters went freely between abstraction and figuration, stating that the strict division between the two styles was defined in later years by critic Clement Greenberg.

It is a known fact that Modernist/ figurative/ abstract painting appeals to larger audiences than conceptual art. However, it seems that it is precisely this sort of painting, while easily digested by the public, is challenging for the art world. Though some praise the assumed resurrection of painting, other voices are rather skeptical, seeing it as another validation to the art world’s deterioration into a mercenary industry. The term “Zombie Formalism”, coined by artist-critic Walter Robinson, spread quickly as the derogative title for market- led abstract geometric paintings. Respectively, all the above-mentioned exhibitions prompted a spirited debate among

art world professionals about the dangers of awakening the corpse of painting.

Indeed if we compare the founding fathers of Modernist Art from the turn of the 20th century with the artists creating in the Modernist style today, one of the most significant differences would be that those painters of past were considered the exemplary of radical thinking, of anti-establishment, of subversiveness, and iconoclasm. That said, during the one hundred and fifty years since the height of the Modernist era, those same groundbreaking

artists have become a canon themselves and their aesthetic style the standard for how outdated, conservative and popular art looks like.

This is true not only for their style but also for their worldviews, which were also considered progressively liberal for their times. However from today’s standpoint, when there is greater sensitivity to topics of gender and class- it is clear that their exotic- romanticized view of anyone who is not a white male bourgeois like themselves (including women, working class, black and eastern people)- was chauvinist, sexist, colonialist, patronizing and ultimately racist.

Time has shown that the cultural revolution that the Modernist artists belonged to was extremely partial. Today too, humanity has a very long way to go until all men (and women) are equal- if it ever will get there. While the Modernist era was full of ideology and belief in the generation’s power to change the world, today’s generation is not united in a defined movement with manifestoes guiding there way. Our worldview about our limits is pragmatic. As the generation who took to the streets in the summer of 2011 and experienced how the system effortlessly overthrows the revolt, we understand the volume of institutional corruption, power structures and the illusion of democracy. Hence, despite the seemingly outdated aesthetic, it may be said that these painters express the spirit of our times precisely - the style may be Modern but the outlook is absolutely post-modern, in the sense that it lacks ideology- rather it is post-ideological. It seems these artists’ creative process led them to the Modernist style as a means to find their own voice amidst the chaos of meaninglessness. Be it because of their longing to connect to certain historical- cultural roots and use the aesthetic-stylistic heritage left over by the Modernist masters, to encode contemporary (or local) identity. Or be it from their wish to free themselves from any limiting obligations and explore creative experimentation from a playful approach.

The concerns that have risen in the wake of contemporary painting do not stem from the medium itself, nor from its accessibility to the general viewing public. The concerns are for the basic values of the work of art in the free world- that relate to freedom of speech, to challenging conventions and to stretching the boundaries. It seems today these values come through from an individualistic standpoint rather than a social one. The contemporary painters presented in this exhibition are engaged in challenging their personal limits in their creative process. Thus if the personal is always also political, it can be assumed that even with no ideological foundation to lead the way, there is guarantee for the perseverance of freedom of thought and creativity.

Nogah Davidson

Trans Atlantic Orphan, 2012oil on linen165 x 165 cm

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Pyramids, 2013oil on linen60 x 74 cm

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Non - Mediterranean House II, 2015oil on linen70 x 64 cm

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Born 1977 Haifa, IsraelLives and works in Tel Aviv, Israel

Education

2000 Hampshire College, Amherst, MA. Bachelors of Art1997 New York Studio School, New York1996 Pont Aven School of Art, Pont-Aven, France (Summer-Term)1996 Parsons School of Design, New York

Solo Exhibitions

2016(Forthcoming) Solo Show, Rod Barton Gallery, Brussels(Forthcoming) Duo-Show with Kaye Donachie, Apartment, Paris, Curated by Timothee Chaillou

2015Ancienne Rive, Ameringer | McEnery | Yohe Gallery, NYC.

2014Diary, Galerie Derouillon, ParisFirst Battle Lived Accident, Alon Segev Gallery, Tel Aviv

2013Accident Nothing, Aran Cravey Gallery, LALived & Laughed & Loved & Left, La Montagne Gallery, BostonBattle, Therapy, Living Room, The Velan Center for Contemporary Art, Turin Curated by Noam Segal

2012Battle, Therapy, Living Room, Kunsthalle Rotschild 69, Tel AvivCurated by Noam SegalGuy Yanai &Arik Levy, Alon Segev Gallery, Tel Aviv

2011First We Feel Then We Fall, Alon Segev Gallery

2010Four Guys Sitting in a Subaru Drinking Grapejuice, The Spaceship at Hayarkon 70, Tel Aviv. Curated by Alon Segev

2009Political Science, Rothschild Fine Art, Tel Aviv

2008THREADS, Jerusalem Studio School Gallery, Jerusalem

2004Gorgeous Contradiction, Gallery 33, Tel Aviv, Israel

2001New Works, Artspace Gallery, Jerusalem, Israel

2000New Works, Louis Boston Space, Boston, MA

1999Thesis Show, Easthampon Interiors Hampshire College Main Gallery, Amherst, MASelected Group Exhibitions

2016(Forthcoming) Group Exhibition, Charlotte Fogh Gallery, Aarhus, Denmark(Forthcoming) IMAGINE, Brand New Gallery, Milan

2015Art Basel Miami, with Amerniger | McEnery | Yohe GalleryCulture/Color/Body, Haifa Museum of Art, HaifaRod Barton Brussels Launch, Rod Barton Gallery, BrusselsA House Without Rooms, TORRI, Paris Curated by Guy YanaiYIA Art Fair, with Galerie Derouillon, ParisEXPO Chicago, with Ameringer | McEnery | Yohe Gallery, ChicagoFresh Fruit, Les Gens Heureux Gallery, CopenhagenExposition Collective, Galerie Derouillon, ParisWords without Letters, Alon Segev Gallery, Tel Aviv Curated by Guy YanaiRefiguring, Coburn Projects, LondonArt 15, with Alon Segev Gallery, LondonDrawing Now Fair, with Galerie Derouillon, Paris

2014Par Ici Mon Kiki, Le Coeur, ParisInformal Forms, Aran Cravey Gallery, LA. Curated by Noam SegalSummer Mixer, Joshua Liner Gallery, NYCArt Market Hamptons Fair, with Joshua Liner Gallery, NYCJust Before Brazil, A.L.I.C.E Gallery, Brussels, BelgiumArt14 Fair, with Alon Segev Gallery, LondonArt Herning Art Fair with Charlotte Fogh Gallery, Copenhagen

2013Fresh Paint Art Fair 6, with Alon Segev Gallery, Tel AvivGrowth, Charlotte Fogh Gallery, Aarhus, DenmarkDoorRoomWindow, Pulse Fair, SHFAP, NYCArtist Series Project, with Woodpoint & KingslandART13 Fair, with Alon Segev Gallery, LondonLA Art Book Fair, with Sternthal Books, LA

2012Domesticated Souls, A.L.I.C.E Gallery, Brussels Curated by Alice Van Dan Abeele (with catalog)Brussels Art Days, in conjunction with the A.L.I.C.E gallery group show, BrusselsThe Irreconcilable (with Tal R, Jonas Wood, Avner Ben-Gal, Jen Abessira, MattPhillips), Spaceship at HaYarkon 70. Curated by Guy Yanai (with catalog)

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Nada Art Fair, with ArtIs, NYCFresh Paint Art Fair 5, with Alon Segev Gallery, Tel Aviv

2011Gallery Artists, Alon Segev GalleryItaly – Israel: Senses of the Mediterranean, Hangar Bicocca, Milan,Possibility of a Book, Sommer Contemporary Art S2, Tel Aviv

2010Israelism, Shay Arye Gallery, Tel Aviv

2008Opening Show, Rothschild Fine Art, Tel AvivRecent Purchases from the Israel Discount Bank Collection, Ashdod Museum of Art, Ashdod, Israel

2006Artists Choose Artists, The Painting Center, NYC

Special Projects

2015Moby Dick, drawing collaboration with Harpune VerlagGuy Yanai / Rafe Mullarkey, Rod Barton Gallery, LondonThe Drawer, drawing collaboration on Volume 9: Paris, Texas.Limited Edition Prints, in collaboration with Exhibition A

2014Collaboration with Artis, designing limited edition of tote-bagsCollaboration with WPKL, designing limited edition line of tote-bagsElegies for Julius, special installation at Bootsbau Gallery, BerlinSkateboards, DeBuck Gallery, NYC (with Jules de Balincourt, Ridley Howard, Diana al Hadid and more)Collaboration with Artis, designing exclusive line of tote-bagsGroup exhibition with Kiblind Magazine, Point Ephemere, Paris

2013Band of Outsiders SS14 resort collection collaboration

Residencies/Grants

2016 (Forthcoming) Lucile Avenue Artist-In-Resideny Project by TORRI Gallery, LosAngeles2014 Villa Lena Residency Program, Tuscany, Italy2012 Artis Contemporary Art Fund, Professional Development Workshop by CreativeCapital2011 Venice Printmaking Studio, Venice (with stipend grant)2009 Upstate Workspace (Zach Feuer Gallery), Hudson, NY (with open studio)

2008 Frans Masereel Centrum, Kasterlee, Belgium

Exhibitions Curated

2016 (Forthcoming) Bisous Magique, Group Exhibition, Galerie Derouillon, Paris2015 A House Without Rooms, Group Exhibition, TORRI, ParisWords without Letters, Alon Segev Gallery, Tel Aviv2012 The Irreconcilable, Spaceship Gallery at HaYarkon 70, Tel Aviv2006 Emptiness, Gallery 33, Tel Aviv, Israel including works by Meir Appelfeld, BronlynJones, Joshua Meyer, Aaron Norfolk, Stuart Shils2005 Uri Blayer: North/South – ISRAEL, Gallery 33, Tel Aviv, Israel (with catalog)2004 Beauty is only the First Touch of Terror, Gallery 33, Tel Aviv, Israel; includingworks by Alejandro Goldberg, Rita Natarova, Aaron Norfolk, Noa Shay, StuartShils, and Ben Tritt

Monographs and Exhibition Catalogs

2015 A HOUSE WITHOUT ROOMS. Text by Guy Yanai. (Exhibition Catalog, TORRI, Paris).WORDS WITHOUT LETTERS. Text by Guy Yanai. (Exhibition Catalog, Alon Segev Gallery, Tel Aviv).Guy Yanai: ANCIENNE RIVE. Texts by Caty Levine and Timothee Chaillou. (Exhibition Catalog, Ameringer | McEnery | Yohe Gallery, New York).2014 Guy Yanai: DIARY. Text by Barbara Sirieix and interview by Timothee Chaillou.(Exhibition Catalog, Galerie Derouillon, Paris)2013 Guy Yanai: ACCIDENT NOTHING. Text by Hila Cohen-Shneiderman and interviewby Noam Segal. (Exhibition Catalog, Aran Cravey Gallery, Los Angeles).2012 IRRECONCILABLE. Text by Guy Yanai. (Exhibition Catalog, Spaceship Gallery atHaYarkon 70, Tel Aviv)2011 Guy Yanai: FIRST WE FEEL THEN WE FALL. Text by Nuit Banai and text andinterview by James Trainor. (Exhibition Catalog, Alon Segev Gallery, Tel Aviv)2008 Guy Yanai: POLITICAL SCIENCE. Interview by Joseph R. Wolin. (ExhibitionCatalog, Rothschild Fine Art, Tel Aviv).2002 Guy Yanai: sources | inspirations | confessions | notes | theories | letters |manifestoes | conclusions | and other refined | and raw data (Artist Book)

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Israeli SunsetSummer, 2012wood, polystyrene and acrylic stucco100 x 120 cm

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Vanitas, 2010wood, acrylic stucco and acrylic paint83 x 73 cm

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Sunset landscape,2010wood, acrylic stucco, acrylic paint and matchstick42 x 53 cm

White flowers, 2009wood, gravel and acrylic paint61 x 53 cm

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Still life, 2010wood, gravel and acrylic paint80 x 66 cm

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1977 Born in Amsterdam, NetherlandsLives and works in Tel Aviv

2005 - 2015 Founding member and co-curator of Barbur gallery in Jerusalem.

2009 – 2015 Teacher at the Fine Art Department at Avni School of Art and Design, Tel Aviv Israel.

Education

2004 – BFA, Fine Art Department, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem2003 – Exchange student at Cooper Union, New York, USA

Solo Exhibitions

2015 Walkway, Jerusalem Artists House. Curator: Sally Haftel Naveh

2013 Triad, Atelier Shemi, Cabri. Curator: Smadar Schindler

2012 Miracles and Wonders, Feinberg Projects, Tel Aviv

2006 LOVE MINUS ZERO, Barbur Gallery, Jerusalem

Group Exhibitions

2012 Haifa Museum of Art – “Tel-Aviv, Haifa, Jerusalem”

2011 Souvenirim – Tower of David Museum, curated by Michael Kesus-Gedalyovich“Liberte” – Group exhibition at Sommer Contemporary art gallery, Tel Aviv Israel. Curated by Avi Sabah.

2010 “Comfort Scapes” – Group exhibition at Art-Cube, Jerusalem Israel. curated by Tal Yahas.“Teivot Tehuda” – Group exhibition by Keshet Eylon foundation. Rubin House Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel. “City-State” – Special project. exhibited at the entrance to the Israeli ministry of education Lev-Ram building in Jerusalem Israel.“No Soul For Sale” at Tate Modern, UK. Curated by Cecilia Alemani, Massimiliano Gionni and Maurizio Cattelan“Hateiva” - Group exhibition. Leumi Bank – Mani Building. Curated by Ido Bar-El.

2009 “Body and Shadow” – Group exhibition at the Mishkenot Shaananim Duek Gallery. Curated by Irena Gordon.Adraba – Group exhibition of Barbur Group at Florentin45 Gallery.Subvision – Non-profit art festival at Hafen City in Hamburg, Germany.Supermarket – Non-profit Gallery art fair in Stockholm, Sweden.

2008 What Game Shall We Play Today?” - Group exhibition at TWS Shibuya, Tokyo.“Waking the Tiger” – Group exhibition at Florentin45 Gallery in Tel-Aviv.“Attitude” - Group exhibition at Barbur Gallery, Jerusalem Israel.

2007 “In Spring Before the War” - Group exhibition curated by Yonatan Amir in Jerusalem Israel.“Polygraph”, Jerusalem Drawing Biennale, Barbur Gallery, Jerusalem, IsraelMarking Space” Group exhibition at Linda Gallery in Hamburg Germany.

2005 Opening Exhibition Barbur Gallery, Jerusalem Israel.

2004 BFA Senior Show, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design Jerusalem Israel

Scholarships and Awards

2004 – History and Theory department award for excellence, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design

Residencies

2008 – Tokyo Wonder Site Aoyama, Creator in residence

As Curator

2005 – 2015 Curator at Barbur Gallery, Jerusalem

2012 Re:Visiting Rockefeller, Contemporary Israeli Art at the Rockefeller Archaeological Museum, Jerusalem. Curated in collaboration with Sally Haftel Naveh

The Stone Breakers (After Courbet), 2014mixed media60 x 186 x 15 cm each

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The Stone Breakers, model, 2014foam, wood, industrial paint and soil32 x 12 cm each

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Born 1979. Lives, teaches and works in Tel Aviv

Education

2008-2010 M.F.A Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Tel Aviv2002-2005 B.F.A. Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem2004-2005 HAW, Hamburg, Germany

Solo exhibitions

2015Daily practice, Beit Tammy, Tel AvivAshuchit, an Israeli - German project, Sadnaot Ha’omanim, Tel Aviv

2012Automaton, Dana gallery, Kibbutz Yad Mordechai

2011Leviathan, solo show, kav 16 community gallery, Tel Aviv

2010Waiting for love’s first kiss, MFA graduate show, Bezalel Gallery, Tel Aviv

2008Tzalmon, a collaboration with Yonatan Shilo, Tavi Dresdner project room, Tel Aviv

Selected group exhibitions

2015Hatalush, Tel Aviv Museum of artHost, Sadnaot Ha’omanim, Tel AvivButterfly stroke, Indie Gallery, Tel AvivAfter 20 years, HIT gallery, HolonGatherer, Artists house, JerusalemAgro-art, Petach Tikva museum of art, Petach Tikva 2014Beton, Bulimia, Beit Benyamini house, Tel AvivDialog, Städtische Galerie KUBUS, Hanover, GermanyTabula rasa, kupfermann house, kibbutz lochamei hagetaot

2013Shod vashever, Shay Arye gallery, Tel AvivThe Young Artist award Winners exhibition, Ashdod Museum, Ashdod

2012Random, BAAD Gallery, Tel AvivThe owls are not what they seem, Ganei Omer, Omer

2011And what shall we do with painting? Haifa museum of art, HaifaWind stones, Daniel gallery, Tel Aviv

2010Schenut, beit hagefen gallery, HaifaAsher asa Bezalel, The Kfar-Saba city gallery, Kfar sabaThin Ice, Dana Gallery, Kibbutz Yad MordechayReal presence 10, Belgrade, SerbiaBread and roses, Minshar gallery, Tel AvivA Way from no Way”, Opera Gallery, New York

2009Maximalism, ArtTLV biennial, Avni institute, Tel AvivMakirim, Shay Arye Gallery, Tel AvivLimited Action, Bezalel in Tel AvivHitna’arut, WIZO Haifa, HaifaDegenerate Art, Dan Gallery, Tel-AvivDécolleté, MOBY Factory, with Yonatan Shilo, Bat-Yam industrial area the Bat Yam museum of artThe Fresh Paint 2 Art fair, Mitcham Hatachana, Tel AvivMani’s Haunted House, Mani’s House art space, Tel- AvivSecret art 4, Mani’s House art space, Tel- AvivArtist-Hunter: Part 1-Prey, the Nachum Guttmann Museum, Tel-AvivA4, GSA, Glasgow, Scotland

Prizes and scholarships

2015 ACDP artist workshop, invited by Artis, Artport Tel Aviv and Asylum artsThe Joshua Rabinowitz and Tel Aviv municipality grant for special projects

2014 The Joshua Rabinowitz fund

2013 IDA Hanover, schir organization grant and Artist residencyThe Israeli lottery grant

2012 Young Artist award, the Israeli Ministry of Culture and Sport

2005 The Dr. Noam Schodowsky prize for a young artist

2004 Stipendium DAAD & Friends of Bezalel Academy, Hamburg

Publications

2015 Ashuchit|Fichte (Artist book)

Untitled, 2015oil and acrylicon canvas50 x 40 cm

Eclipse, 2015oil and acrylicon canvas50 x 40 cm


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Compote, 2015oil and acrylicon canvas50 x 40 cm

Factory, 2015oil and acrylicon canvas50 x 40 cm

Nessie, 2015oil, acrylic and spray on canvas100 x 150 cm

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Garden, 2015oil and acrylic on canvas120 x 80 cm

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Born 1982, Israel

Education

2009: B.A. “Hamidrasha School of Arts”, Beit Berl, Israel

Solo Exhibitions

2014“Exotica Park”, Kibutz Rosh Ha’nikra Gallery, Rosh Ha’nikra, Israel. Curators: Yuri Katz & Asia Dublin

2013“Carnival Dream Cruise”, Ha’Agaf Gallery, Haifa, Israel.

2011“Pudding”, Hanina Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel. Curator: Tsuki Garbian

Dual Exhibitions

2012“Practice” -Yaara Oren & Alma Shneor, Alfred Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel. Curator: Dina Yakerson“Four Generations: Ruth Schloss & Yaara Oren”, Tiroche Gallery, Herzliya, Israel. Curator: Einav Ziv.

Selected Group Exhibitions

2015“Painting Salon”, Ha’Kubiya Gallery, Jerusalem, Israel.Curator: Dan Orimian & Ella Cohen Vansover

2014“They paint flowers”, Jaffa Art Salon Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel. Curator: Amit Cabessa“Selfie”, Ramleh contemporary art station, Ramleh, Israel. Curator: Liav Mizrahy“BENEFIT”, Stephen S. Wise Temple in partnership with Paddle 8, Los Angles, USA. Curator: Sharon Zoldan

2010-2013“Regeneration 2 - Tomorrow Photographers Today”: world-wide traveling exhibition. Curators: Nathalie Hercshdorfer & William Erwing.Venues:ROSPHOTO, Saint Petersburg, Russia // Devos Art Museum, Marquette, Michigan, USA // Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA // Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, Florida, USA // Landkrona Museum, Landkrona, Sweden // Aperture Foundation, New York, USA // Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest, Hungary // Galerie Azzedine Alaia, Paris, France // Caochangdi Photo Spring Festival,Pekina, China // Recontres International de la Photo de Fes, Fes, Morocco // Musee de I’Elysee,

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Lausanne, Switzerland// Rencontres d’Arles, Arles, France// Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa// Pingyao International Photography Festival, Pingyao, china// Galleria Carla Sozzani, Milan, Italy// Centre Gallery, Miami Dade College, Miami, USA// Flash Forward Festival, Toronto, Canada// Fotoweek DC, Washington, USA.

2013“Go Figure”, Ha’Agaf Gallery, Haifa, Israel.Curator: Yaara Oren.

2012“Random”, BAAD Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel. Curator: Random“Metushelah”, Galon Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel. Curator: Avi Schneebaum.“BAAD Influence”, BAAD Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel. Curator: Johnatan Twitto.“Terra Nova”, The City Gallery, Bat Yam, Israel. Curator: Sharon Toval.“Mishloah Manot”, Indie Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel. Curators: Gali Faber & Yael Ravid.

2011“Musical Chairs”, Diagilev, Tel Aviv, Israel. Curator: Ortal Mor.“Defamiliarization”, The Container, Tel Aviv, Israel. Curators: Hadas Avtalyon and Davy barel.“Rough Material”, Minshar College, Tel Aviv, Israel.“Facing Forward”, Forward Thinking Museum, Curators: Nathalie Hercshdorfer.

2010“The First Decade”, Mofet Institute, Tell Aviv, Israel. Curators: Yuval Caspy and Dina Shenhav.

2009“Mesilat Yesharim”, Street Exhibition, Tel-Aviv, Israel. Curator: Noam Venkart.Graduation Exhibition, “Hamidrasha” School of Arts, Beit Berl, Israel. Curators: Angella Klein and Talia Keynan.“Photography and Desire”, Tel-Hay Photography museum, Tel-Hay, Israel.“Secret Art 4”, Mani House, Tel-Aviv, Israel. Curators: Doron Pollek and Estie Drory

Selected Art Events

2015“Art Book Fair”, Artport, Tel Aviv, Israel Curators: Vardit Gross & Karmit Galili.“Open Sketchbooks”, Fresh Paint Family # 1, Tel Aviv, Israel.Curator: Orly Maiberg.“Down”, Downtown Art Events, Haifa Film Festival,

Haifa, Israel.2014“Menofim” Art Festival, Jerusalem, Israel. Curator: Dina Yakerson.“Book Art Weekend”, Art Plus Hotel, Tel Aviv, Israel.Curator: Dina Yakerson.

2013“Testing Tules”, Art Festival, Tel Aviv, Israel. Curator: Carmit Blumensohn.

2012“Fresh Paint 5” art fair, Artists’ Greenhouse, Tel Aviv, Israel.Curators: Matan Daube & Yifaat Gurion.

Publications

2015: “Harama” Magazine, issue # 9, Trash.2015: “Primadona” Magazine, issue # 1, interview by Shahar Sarig. 2014: “&” Magazine, # 1 issue, Supernatural.2013: “Harama” Magazine, issue # 5, Homework.2012: “Practice”, Artist Book with Alma Shneor, self published2012: “Terra Nova”, Exhibition Catalog. Curator: Sharon Toval2012: “Metushelah”, Exhibition Catalog. Curator: Avi Schneebaum2011: “Saint Flora”, Artist Book, self published2010: “Regeneration 2 - Tomorrow photographers today”,Thames & Hudson Publication, London, England.Curators: Nathalie Hercshdorfer & William Erwing2010: “Leumi Art Collection”, Kineret Zmora Bittan Publication, Curator: Smadar Sheffy

Awards and Scholarships

2015: Artis, Artport & Asylum Arts - Artist Career Development Program2009: Excellence in Art Scholarship, Hamidrasha Art School, Beit Berl

Residency

2013: “Hige Res”, Ha’Agaf Gallery, Haifa, Israel.

Collections

Musee de I’Elysee, Lausanne, SwitzerlandMichaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South AfricaLeumi Collection, IsraelPrivate collections

Electric Moon, 2014acrylic on canvas154 x 174 cm

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Untitled, 2013Silkprint on Paper56 x 58 cm

Untitled 2012 Silkprint on Paper 56 x 76 cm

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B.1973 Tel Aviv, Israel

Art Education2007- 2009 Postgraduate Studies, Bezalel Academy of Art & Design, Tel Aviv, Israel2005 -2006 Kunstakademie Dusseldorf, Class of Prof. Albert Oehlen Dusseldorf, Germany1998-1999 Foundation Degree Fine Art / Painting, Chelsea College of Art & Design, London, U.K

Solo Exhibitions

2013 After All - Inga Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, israel

2011 Meiosis - Tel Aviv Artists’ Studios Space, Tel Aviv, Israel

2010 Lunch Break - Inga Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, israel

2004 Imprint - ‘Marshim’ Exhibition Series, Haifa Museum Of Ar, Haifa, IsraelTransition - A Joint installation with Adi Mendler, Office in Tel Aviv Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel


2014No Place: BAAD Gallery Bezalel Academy, Tel Aviv, Israel

2013Picola Germania: Cinque Garzoni, Venice, ItalyBehind the Non Colours: Galerie Voss, Dusseldorf, Germany

2012The Left Hand: The Faculties of Satan and the Work of Art - The University Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel1+1* - Hamelaha Gallery, Tel Aviv, IsraelBAAD Influence - BAAD Gallery Bezalel Academy, Tel Aviv, IsraelPlanty - Minshar Art Space, Tel Aviv, IsraelMesibat Sium - The Heder Contemporary Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

2011And what shall we do with Painting in the 21st Century? - Haifa Museum Of Art, Haifa, IsraelGetaway - Art Gallery at the Memorial Center, Tivon, IsraelEscaping Everything and Staying Forever - Pyramida Center for Contemporary Art, Haifa, Israel

2010Response Time - Minshar Art Space, Tel Aviv, Israel.Add Sin to Crime - Inga Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, israelMutt 2010 - Galery 39 for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, israel

2009Ikonen des Sieges. Transformatione - Humboldtberlin, Berlin, GermanyCinque Garzoni - Cinque Garzoni / Mostra Internationale, Venice, ItalyHaroshet: Bezalel MFA Graduate Show - Hatahana, Tel Aviv, Israel.

2008Decline - The Heder Contemporary Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, IsraelFlock - Bezalel Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

2007Lego - The Heder Contemporary Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

2005Stars and Comets - Kunst Fabric Halle, Wuppertal, Germany

Collections

Haifa Museum of Art CollectionGottesman Collection, Tel AvivN.Jaglom Collection, Tel AvivPrivate collections in Israel and Abroad

Untitled, 2015oil on canvas130 x 100 cm

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Untitled, 2015oil on canvas140 x 120 cm

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Born in 1974, Ramat-Gan, Israel,Lives and Works in Israel

Education

2006 MFA program of the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design 2004 B.E.D School of Art “Hamidrasha”, Biet Berl.

Solo Exhibition

2014 Eminent Domain, Feinberg Projects, Tel Aviv

2013 Elad Kopler: Temperatures, Rappaport Prize for a YoungIsraeli Painter, Tel Aviv Museum of Art

2011 No man’s land, The Artists Studio, Tel Aviv

2009 After the Heat Wave, Tavi Dresdner gallery

2009 Black Clouds, Habres & Partner, Vienna

2008 Twilight, Biet– Berl Academic College gallery Fools Ship, Kibbutz Beeri Gallery, Kibbutz Beeri

2007When despair becomes plausible, Tavi Dresdner Gallery.Ma’avarim, BietBerl Academic College gallery

Group Exhibition

2015Akhshav, Stein Rose Fine Art, New York, USA

2014 Select Art Fair, Miami Art Week, Litvak Gallery

2011 The coming community, Haifa Museum, curated by Yeela Hazut & Lee Veinberg

2009 Crisis of the genre, International Sculpture triennial, Poznan Poland

2008 Postpop, Israeli Cartoon Museum, Holon curated by Yuval CaspiBlat, Rothschild Gallery 69Young Artist Award Exhibition, Haifa MuseumEtchings, Scratches and Scars, Petach- Tikva Museum of ArtWhite, “Inner Room” Tavi Dresdner Gallery (curator & participant) NOIR, Bienth Gallery, Tel-Aviv

2007Exhibition by Kimmel-Eshkolot Architects ltd, Tel- Aviv PortSecret Art, Bank Hapoalim, Tel-AvivUnder the Sun, Gilit Fisher’s Gallery, Tel-AvivBY THE WAY, Group exhibition, The Heder contemporary art, Tel- Aviv7 sculptures, Tavi Dresdner Gallery, Tel-AvivAll overruns, Ha’Kibbutz Gallery, Tel-Aviv

2006 Shoshelet, (Dynasty), Sapir College, Shderot.100 Years of Bezalel Art Academy, Ben– Gurion AirPort.Graduate’s Program exhibition, Bezalel Academy of Art & Design, Tel-Aviv.Group exhibition, Graduate’s Program Bezalel– Glasgow. Group Exhibition, Istanbul Biennial, with Graduate’s Program Bezalel Academy of Art & Design

2005 Group Exhibition, ByArt Projects Gallery.Artik 7, Ramat Gan Museum.

2004 Graduates Exhibition, Biet– Berl Academic College.

2003 Wounded, The “Midrasha” School of Art Gallery, Tel-Aviv.

2002 A Day will come artists, Artists for Arab– Israeli co– existence, Umm El-Fahm Gallery- Rosenfeld Gallery.

Scholarships and Awards2012 Rappaport Prize for a Young Israeli Painter, Tel Aviv Museum2007 Young Artist Award, Ministry of science culture & sport2006 Award for Excellence, Bezalel Academy of Art Design.2005, 2006, 2007 America– Israel Cultural Foundation 2004 Excellence Award Scholarship, “Hamidrasha” School of Art Beit Berl College.

Collections

Bank Ha’poallim Collection; Filip Sofer Collection, NY; Sam & Yael Bachrach NY and on Private collections

Publications

Elad Kopler -Tempratures, catalogue, The Rappaport Prize for A Young Israeli Painter, 2012The Aretz Magazine October 17th 2008Block Magazine, # 05, winter 2008, pp. 151-153Etchings, Scratches and Scars, Exhibition Catalogue 20082007 Jerusalem post – April 6th The winners 2007 – Haifa museum catalog – pp. 74-75Israeli art fair of the Aid committee Bank Hapoalim catalog p.394

M a t a n B e n T o l i l a

Fence and cloud, 2015acrylic on canvas155 x 111 cm


One centimeter from the heart (diptych), 2015acrylic on canvas40 x 48 cm each



Born 1978, Kvutzat Yavne, IsraelLives and works in Jerusalem

Education

2010-2012 Kerem institute for Jewish Humanist Education, Jerusalem.2008-2010 Master of Fine Arts, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Tel-Aviv.2002-2006 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem.

Awards and Scholarships

2014 Schir Residency@Berlin, Friderike Schir Foundation2007 Bachelor Scholarship, America-Israel Cultural Foundation.2006 The Mitchell Presser Prize, Department of Fine Arts, Bezalel.2005 Excellence Scholarship, America-Israel Cultural Foundation.

Solo/ Dual Exhibitions

2014 “Notes to the wind”, “Art-Beijing 2014” Art-Fair, at the Israeli Embassy booth, Beijing- China.

2013 “Moon walks”, Noga Gallery, Tel- Aviv.

2012 “Moved room” - Collaboration with German artist Klaus Kleine, special project at Fresh Painr 05 Art fair, Tel- Aviv. Curator: Friederike Schir.

2011 “The Same Sea / A Different Coast” - Collaboration with German artist Klaus Kleine, Galerie-61, Germany- Bielefeld. Curator: Friederike Schir

2010 “Travelers’ Hut”/ “Salame 10”, MFA Graduate Show, Bezalel Gallery, Tel- Aviv.

2007 “Roaming”, Solo Gallery, Tel Aviv. Curator: Dana Taggar.


2014 “International Art Symposium”, Museum Villa Bohm, Neustadt am der weinstrasse, Germany. Curator: Ralph Gelbert.“Journeys”, The Israel Museum, The Youth wing, erusalem. Curator: Kobi Ben- Meir.“Benefit- An Israeli Art Auction”, Stephen H. Wise Temple, Los- Angeles, USA. Curator: Sharon Zoldan.“Searching for the concealed”, P8 Gallery, Tel- Aviv.Curator: Shimon Lev. “Teachers 2014”, Ramla Regional Gallery. Curator: David Wakstein & Amitai Ring .

2013 “Spaces in the North”- selected works from Bank- Leumi collection, Hazor-Haglilit. Curator: Smadar Sheffi.“Spaces in the South”- selected works from Bank- Leumi collection, Sderot. Curator: Smadar Sheffi.“Fresh paint 6” Art-Fair, with Noga Gallery , Tel- Aviv.

2012 “Fresh paint 5” Art- fair, with Noga Gallery , Tel- Aviv.

2011 “Open call for snow”, 39 Gallery Tel-Aviv.Curator: Danny Yahav-Brown.“Shesh-Besh”, Petach Tikva Museum of Art. Curator: Hadas Maor.“Vacuum”, Rawart Gallery Tel-Aviv. Curator: Noga Davidson.“Paper, rock & scissors”, The New Gallery, The Artists’ Studios, Jerusalem. Curator: Hedva Shemesh.

2010 AICF Gala Art Installation, Lincoln Jazz Center, New-York.“2010-2011”, Hanina Gallery, Tel-Aviv.“Which Created Bezalel”, City Gallery, Kfar-Saba.“Manofim”, The New Gallery, The Artists’ Studios, Jerusalem.“Manofim”, May Gallery, Musrara, Jerusalem.“Going Out”, P8 Gallery, Tel-Aviv.

2009 Secret Art 4, Mani’s House art space, Tel- Aviv.“New Horizons”, Ramla Regional Gallery.

2008 Ramat Hasharon Biennale for Young Artists.“Fresh Paint 01”,The Young Israeli Art Fair, Tel- Aviv.“First News”, Art Center, Mevaseret Zion.

2007 “Artic 9”, Exhibition of the Recipients of the Sharett Scholarship for YoungIsraeli Artists, Tel Aviv University Gallery.

2006 “Painting Now”, Bernard Gallery, Tel Aviv.“Bezalel 100 Terminal 1”, Final Graduate Exhibition, Tel Aviv.“Artic 8”, Exhibition of the Recipients of the Sharett Scholarship for Young Israeli Artists, Tel Aviv University Gallery.

2005 “Artic 7”, Exhibition of the Recipients of the Sharett Scholarship for Young Israeli Artists, Ramat Gan Museum.

Mother and Daughter, 201460 x 40 cmpastels and ink on paper

G a l i a P a s t e r n a k

This Is It, 201470 x 70cmoil on canvas


Reunion, 2013oil on canvas70 x 50 cm

G a l i a P a s t e r n a kG a l i a P a s t e r n a k

Small change, 2013oil on canvas120 x 120 cm



born in Tel Aviv, 1977lives and works in Givataaim

Education

2005-2007 M.F.A. Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Tel Aviv2001-2005 B.F.A. With excellence, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem 2004 student exchange, Slade School of Fine Art, London 2000 painting and drawing studies, Ècole nationale des beaux-arts, Paris

Solo exhibition

2015 “Paintings”, Kibbutz Meuhad Gallery

2014 “How to avoid mistakes”, Alfred Gallery Tel Aviv (with Talya Raz)

2010-2011 “Lilliane adventures”, Noga Gallery for Contemporary Art

2008 “Bell”, Haifa Museum of Art, followed by an artist book“Tropit”, Artists’ studios, Tel Aviv

2006-2007 “Bear hug”, Noga Gallery of Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv

Selected group exhibitions

2015“Detention facility #27, Beit Ha’ir Museum, Tel AvivPainting Salon, Hacubia gallery, JerusalemArtist notebooks, Fresh Paint Art Fair, Tel Aviv

2014“Karavella”, Binyamin Gallery, Tel Aviv“They paint flowers”, Jaffa art salon“Chicago Triangle”, Haifa Museum

2013 “Tattoos”, The Senate Gallery, University of Beer Sheva“Not book”, Beit Ha’ir Tel Aviv“Ancestors”, Binyamin Gallery Tel Aviv“The winners”, Ashdod Museum

2012“Let them eat cake, Hachava gallery Holon“Passing by”, Hanina gallery Tel Aviv“Planty”, Minshar art gallery

2011 “Household”, kibbutz Urim

2010“Thus spoke bezalel”, Kfar Saba art gallery“And when anger becomes beauty”, Minshar art gallery 2009 “Maximalism”, Avni institute, Tel Aviv“Mind the cracks”, Tel Aviv Museum for art, “Wild exaggeration”, Haifa Museum of art“Fuckinh tourist”, Remap 2, hotel Galini, Athens“Cock eye”, male nude in contemporary Israeli art, Gal On gallery, Tel Aviv“League”, Amiad center, Jaffa / “Become a member”, Hahalalit art space, Tel Aviv

2008“Attitude”, Barbur gallery, Jerusalem

2007-2008“Traces III” the third biennale for drawing in Israel”, artists house, Jerusalem

2007 “Paper works”, Noga Gallery of Contemporary Art“007”, M.F.A. Graduate show, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Tel Aviv

2006“Collaboration on site”, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki“2006: Young artists”, Gordon gallery, Tel AvivTel Aviv Cinematheque, video dance festival

2005Venta gallery, JerusalemB.F.A. Graduate show, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Tel Aviv

2003“Bezalel meeting”, Bezalel Academy Art Gallery, Tel Aviv

Awards and grants

2012 Young artist award, the Israeli ministry of culture and sport 2010 Artist residency “Hotel pupik”, Schratenberg, Austria2008 The Joshua Rabinowitch grant for artist book2006 Bezalel bfa support grant for excellent student

Origins, 2013pencil on paper115 x 87cm

H i l a T o o n y N a v o k

Untitled #1, 2015120 x 90cminkjet print 1/5+ 2AP


Untitled #1, 2015120 x 90cminkjet print, 1/5+ 2AP

Education

2009-2007 Bezalel Academy of Art and Design - Master of Fine Art Program Studies 2005-2004 Continuation Program in fine art, Kalisher school of art Tel-Aviv.2000-1995 The Wizo Hadasa College of Art and Design, Haifa.

Awards and Grants

2014 The 2014 Israel Lottery Council for Culture and Arts grant 2012 The Creativity Encouragement Award, the Israeli Ministry of Culture2012 Artist-teacher Scholarship, the Israeli Ministry of Culture2011 Samuel Givon Prize, The Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv 2009 Graduation with Excellence, Bezalel (MFA) program 2006 The Yehosua Rabinowitz Tel-Aviv Foundation, Grant for a solo show2002 The America-Isreal Cultural Foundation, Scholarship (2001, 2002)2001 The Dan Zakhem Foundation, Award for performance

Solo Exhibitions

2015Releasing a Butterfly - 2 person show with Eitan Ben Moshe at Alon Segev gallery, Tel AvivRounding Up the Hours, CCA, Tel Aviv, Curator: Chen TamirSur-Round-things, Due show with Jan Tichy, Circle1 gallery, Berlin

2013Origins, Noga gallery, Tel Aviv

2010New Infrastructures, lokal_30 gallery, Warsaw, Poland Panorama, Haifa Museum Of Art, curator: Rotem RuffScenery, Art Cologne, Germany, “new position for emerging artists”

2009Tuxedo, as part of the Bezalel MFA graduates exhibition, curator: Sarit Shapira

2006Frisbee,”saf project for young artists”, The artists’s house, Tel-Aviv, curator: Orly Hoffman


Group Exhibitions

2015Objectonomy, Meet Factory, PragueThe Crystal Palace & the Temple of Doom, Petach Tiqva Museum of Art

2014Traces, Beyond Paper, The 5th Biennale for Drawing in Israel, Barbur gallery, JerusalemA Matter of Lightness, Beit Michal, Rehovot Goods, Bat Yam Museum of Modern Art

2013The Israeli Ministry of Culture prize 2012 receives, Ashdod Museum of Modern ArtInvited by Daniel Laufer, Provinz Editions, BochumCome Closer, Feinberg Projects, Tel avivHigh celling, frishman 46, Tel AvivConcrete Abstract, BAAD gallery, Tel Aviv

2012Antropy, The Artists’ Studios Art Cube Gallery, JerusalemRevisiting Rockefeller, Rockefeller Archaeological Museum, Israel Museum, Jerusalem,part of “Menofim” festivalOpen-closed-Open, Binyamin gallery, Tel AvivThe big Masonite, Sommer GallerySalon Talks, Zaritsky Artists House, Tel Aviv

2011Electric Garden, Contemporery By Gloconda, Tel AvivPower line, Binyamin galleryMeshek-bait, Kibutz Urim galleryMonkies, nine people, Alenbi st. passage

2010De-construct, -Ernst Gallery, Cologne Lockmotion, 121 gallery, Tel AvivFresh Paint, Art Fair, Tel AvivArtissima Art fair, Torino, with lokal_30 gallery

2009From Laboratory to Project, Neues Museum, Weimar Sandstormes and Rainbows, Sara Asperger Gallery, Berlin Art TLV, the 2nd Tel Aviv BiennialSnakes and Ladders, Rosenfeld GalleryThere must be something more than this, Kav 16 galleryA4, The Glasgow school of Art

2008Flock, The Bezalel Academy gallery, Tel AvivEducated, Hakita gallery, Tel Aviv

2007The Rear (haa’oreff), The 1st Herzliya Biennial of Contemporary ArtThe Upper authority, The lilinbloom st. offices, Tel AvivThe hidden viewer of the Israeli Art, Tmoona Gallery, Tel Aviv Rockart, Mishkenot Sh’aananim center, Jerusalem

2005Blurr 5th addition, CCA , Tel-avivConspiracy, the Kalisher Gallery

2003Blurr 4th addition, CCA ,Tel-avivArtik, the America-Israel Cultural Foundation Scholarship winners, Ramat-Gan Museum of Art

2002Artik, the America-Israel Cultural Foundation Scholarship winners, The Tel-Aviv University gallery

Workshops and Residencies

2015 Artport, Tel AvivMeet Factory, Prague

2014 Artist Career Development Program, organized by: Asylum Arts, Artis, and Artport

2010 Lokal_30 gallery, artist in residence, Warsaw

2009 A4, workshop, Glasgow school of Art (MFA exchange program)

2008 “(off) white city summer seminar” Bezalel (MFA) program and Saic Chicago school (MFA) programincluding participation in “Tzofia” - a performance by Ernesto Pujol in Tel Aviv

2005 Public art workshop, Anne Bray, UCLA-Bezalel (MFA) program

Curating and Editing2011-2007 Editing, designing and publishing PICNIC MAGAZINE issues 02, 03, 04, 05 along with Adi Englman and Meir Kordevani2010-2011 Co-curated Picnic at Beit Hair, Tel Aviv 2009 Co-curated: 2nd Herzliya Biennial

Guy YanaiWhite Houseoil on linen60 x 74 cm

Rosenbach Contemporary, the only private gallery in Jerusalem devoted to exhibiting and promoting contemporary Israeli Art was founded by Uri Rosenbach in September 2015. Whether established or emerging artists, Nogah Davidson, the gallery curator and creative director demands the highest quality. Located in the exclusive King David St. area, Rosenbach Contemporary promises to re-establish the conversation surrounding contemporary art in Jerusalem.

Uri Rosenbach, founder of Rosenbach Contemporary began his career in fine art in 1996 in a major gallery on King David St. in Jerusalem. He quickly advanced and became director of the gallery. The growth of the company was extremely rapid as he guided the company to new territory not previously considered. Following the takeover of a leading auction house, he served as the main auctioneer (licensed in New York) and CEO from 2007. Due to certain structural changes, in 2014 Uri decided to resign his position and establish Stein Rose Fine Art together with Julianne Steindler. Following the success of Stein Rose, Rosenbach decided to concentrate his efforts in Jerusalem and established Rosenbach Contemporary.

Nogah Davidson, Curator and Creative Director of Rosenbach Contemporarygraduated from the Midrasha School of Art in 2007 Following graduation, she decided to pursue a career in the backstage of the art world and held various positions including producer, gallery assistant, writer, translator and gallery tour guide. In 2011 Davidson was appointed as the in-house curator of Raw Art Gallery in Tel Aviv. Holding this position for nearly five years, her work gained continuous critical acclaim and public interest. Known for her ability to maintain a quality exhibition program of innovative art within a commercial space, she was invited to help build Rosenbach Contemporary from its inception and define its unique identity within the current art world.

16 King David St. (entrance on Hess St.) Jerusalem, Israelt - +972-507-516091 [email protected]

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